Emerging Leaders Program (ASCI 21)

What is ELP?

The Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) is designed to introduce you to concepts and skills supporting the Social Change Model (Astin & Astin, 2000) of leadership development. The course integrates group discussion, experiential learning, group initiatives, and reflective engagement experiences in preparation for leadership within your multiple communities.

Who Should Participate?

Freshmen undergraduate students, including transfers.

What Will You Learn?

To foster change in a global community where prominent trends such as globalization (Allen et al., 1998) continue to impact our relationships and way of life, requires tenacity and innovative ways of understanding and practicing leadership. ELP is one venue to explore your development as a competent, conscious, and compassionate leader (Strategic Plan, 2002) who works for positive change.

How Will You Learn It?

Explore leadership through class discussions, leadership inventories, readings, reflection papers, and experiential activities. The class culminates in a group project focused on the tenants of the Social Change Model.